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Ada Yonath Quotes

I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

Ada Yonath

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: israeli
Birth: June 22, 1939

Topics

Work People Me Care Idiot Dreamer

I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to go out when there is a below-average ebb tide because that exposes clamming grounds and oysters that are usually under water.

Jim Himes

Winter Water Spring Fall Tide Early

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

Amor Towles

Nature Deserve Human Complex Only

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

Steve Martin

Now Got Shot Chimney Works

I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.

Mickey Gilley

Never Dive Sell Stocks Few Took

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

Louise Rennison

Language You I Can Know Talk Sense

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

Liya Kebede

Woman Child Small Young First Child

One of the things that I love about Sarah Vaughan is that she was always very current.

Dianne Reeves

Love She Always Things Current Very

I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.

Christian de Duve

Life Good Live Time Understanding

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.

Cory Booker

Simple Hatred Disgust Felt Hostility

Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.

Anne Bishop

Chocolate Peanut Butter Delicious

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

Atom Egoyan

Home Son Moment Television Image He

Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.

Atom Egoyan

Time I Am Energy Feel Personal Film